Narratives in Popular Culture, Media, and Everyday Life

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SAGE Publications, 1997 - Social Science - 200 pages
Explains narrative theory and applies it to readers' everyday experience with popular forms of mass media, discussing narrative interpretation and analysis on an accessible level. Part I overviews key narrative theorists and techniques. Part II considers the narrative elements of dreams, fairy tales

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The Nature of Narratives
1
Theorists of Narrativity
19
A Modification of Propps Theory
30
Copyright

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Arthur Asa Berger is Professor Emeritus of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State University, where he taught between 1965 and 2003. He has published more than 100 articles, numerous book reviews, and more than 60 books. Among his latest books are the third edition of Media and Communication Research Methods: An Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (2013), The Academic Writer’s Toolkit: A User’s Manual (2008), What Objects Mean: An Introduction to Material Culture (2009), Bali Tourism (2013), Tourism in Japan: An Ethno-Semiotic Analysis (2010), The Culture Theorist’s Book of Quotations (2010), and The Objects of Our Affection: Semiotics and Consumer Culture (2010). He has also written a number of academic mysteries such as Durkheim is Dead: Sherlock Holmes is Introduced to Sociological Theory (2003) and Mistake in Identity: A Cultural Studies Murder Mystery (2005). His books have been translated into eight languages and thirteen of his books have been translated into Chinese.

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